Desire Quote by Michael S. Heiser

We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the…

— Michael S. Heiser

If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the…

— Michael S. Heiser

What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an…

— Michael S. Heiser

Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers were wrong…

— Michael S. Heiser

We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the…

— Michael S. Heiser

Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience…

— Michael S. Heiser

Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our world with…

— Michael S. Heiser

If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they…

— Michael S. Heiser

The powers of darkness are still part of the spiritual world - they don't become something else when they rebel against God. Disembodied believers…

— Michael S. Heiser

The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to think we…

— Michael S. Heiser

God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world.

— Michael S. Heiser

“Conversations didn’t always end well. That sort of thing happens when you demand that creeds and traditions get in line behind the biblical text.”

— Michael S. Heiser